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In 1693 a mighty earthquake flattened many communities in the south east of Sicily .At the time Baroque architecture was the fashion in Europe and over the next few decades several Sicilian towns were re built in the Baroque image .
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On Sicily’s south eastern shore sits Syracuse , nowadays a grand baroque styled city, but in ancient times one of the greatest powers and, for the Greeks , the most important city outside Greece itself .
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The tycoon John Paul Getty built this villa in Malibu inspired by the design of the Villa dei Papiri , a grand country residence on the Bay of Naples buried by the Vesuvius eruption in AD 79. It had been built by the father in law of Julius Caesar.
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The Ottoman Turks occupied the Greek island of Crete for almost 300 years after overthrowing the Venetians in the 17th century .
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Just an hour by fast cattaraman from Buenos Aires is the tranquil small coastal city of Colonia del Sacramento , now a UNESCO world heritage site.
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